May rosehip is known by various names, including brown rosehip, thorn, cinnamon rose. You can meet this plant at the edges of the forest, along ravines, among shrubs and even in meadows. It has received the widest distribution: from Scandinavia to Central Siberia.
May rosehip. Description
This beautiful plant belongs to the perennial shrubs of the Rose family. The plant can reach a height of 200 cm. Rosehip bush, as a rule, consists of straight brown-red stems, on which curved or straight spikes protrude. Its leaves are petiolate, complex, oval, toothed, have stipules. The flowers are large, arranged singly or in two or three, have five pink or red petals on a short pedicel. The fruit is spherical, naked, has sepals at the top, when ripe - red. Inside it are many small, angular seeds that are covered with hairs.
Rosehip blooms in May and June. The fruits ripen in early autumn, usually in September. It reproduces by seeds, but it can also be vegetative.way. May rosehip bears fruit in the second or third year. This plant belongs to the centenarians. 300 years is not the limit for him. By the way, garden rose hips are grown without problems in gardens and parks. It is unpretentious and does not require any special care.
Useful properties of the plant
Rose hips are used for medicinal purposes. They are harvested fully ripe before the onset of frost.
May rose hips are considered useful plants. After all, it contains vitamins: C, B1, B2, P, PP, K. There are also glucose, fructose, and sucrose, as well as organic acids, pectin, s alts of iron, magnesium, calcium, manganese and others. Rosehip preparations are used as a choleretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-sclerotic, diuretic. They have a positive effect on the body's resistance to the negative effects of the external environment, as well as on carbohydrate metabolism. This plant will be useful in acute and chronic infections, with peptic ulcer and other gastrointestinal ailments, as well as with liver diseases, atherosclerosis, uterine and pulmonary bleeding. Rosehip seed oil is used externally to heal wounds, cracked nipples, and bedsores. Since the plant is very useful, an infusion of fruits is made from it. Known to all syrup "Holosas". It is prescribed for hepatitis and cholecystitis. For some diseases, in particular, gallstone and urolithiasis, a decoction of rosehip roots is taken.
May rosehip in myths and legends
Morein ancient times, there were rumors that the rosehip was able to scare away demons, evil spirits, evil and protect against black magic. People believed that pink rosehip flowers had magical powers that could bring passion back to fading feelings.
Many myths and legends are associated with this thorny plant. According to one of the legends, a garden of wild rose hips grew around the temple of the Greek goddess of beauty Aphrodite. It was the beautiful daughter of Zeus who created the scarlet rose. The myth says that before all the roses in the world were white. But once, having heard that her beloved Adonis was torn to pieces by a ferocious beast during a hunt, the beautiful Aphrodite rushed to the place of his death, making her way through a prickly rose garden. Covered in tears and grief, she did not even notice how the sharp thorns of a wild rose hurt her. And drops of divine blood, falling on snow-white flowers, turned them into bright scarlet. And since then, pink flowers have always bloomed on the rosehip bushes.
